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Atticus

Ben Bradshaw, the culture secretary, has a wonderful gift for taking aim at the Tories and then shooting himself in the foot.

Musing about the Lisbon treaty, Ben suggests: "If Tories break a 'cast iron promise' in opposition, what would they be like in government?"

Let me see now. They'd be like a government whose 2005 election manifesto promised "we have no plans to privatise the Royal Mail", yet which, once elected, made a botched attempt to privatise the Royal Mail.

As I might have advised once before: ministers in glass governments shouldn't throw stones.

* * * * * Say what you like about the BBC, but they think of everything. So don't worry if you happen to miss Wednesday's two-minute silence to mark Armistice Day. Listeners will be able to hear the silence again on the BBC's iPlayer service.